Improvement in teapot-handles



L, C. CLARK. Teapot Handle.

Patented June 8, 1869.

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LUCAS C. CLARK, OF PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 90,995,0lated June 8, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEAPOT-HANDLES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUCAS O. CLARK, of Plantsville,

in the county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Teapot-Handles; and I dohereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereofiavhich will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, which draw+ ing' is a side elevation of my invention. My invention consists in constructing a skeleton teapot-handle of a single piece of cast-metal, the body of which is of a square form, for the purpose of making the sides ofthe some very thin.

Letters Patent were granted to Enos E. Stow, December 10, 1867, for a hollow, tubular teapot-handle, which is cast in halves, and afterwards secured by the connections which connect it with the vessel to which it is to be attached.

The expense of casting two pieces to obtain one, and then fitting the same together, is no trifling amount.

To produce equally as good an article, at a less cost, is the object of my invention.

1 construct the handleA of nearly square form, and thickly perforate the same through from side to side. As the handle is nearly square in form, the perforations'can be made so near the edge as to leave the metal outside of the perforations very thin, and of nearly equal thickness'the whole thickness of the handle. The perforations are slightly drawing, so that the pattern can be drawn from the sand, and leave the mould of the desired shape. Thus the handle can be cast with the perforations in the same, as shown.

: It will be seen that if the handle were formed of the usual round, or oval forunthe perforations could not be as large, without leaving the handle either too weak, or the metal outside of the perforations in the centre of the handle much thicker than it is in the square handle.

On each end of the handle A, I form oval-shaped teuons a a, the ends of which are designated by the brokenlines. I

The scale is removed from a portion of the tcn'ons a a in any proper manner, and then a shortsheetmetal tube, or connect-ion, c o,is placed on each tenon, and secured by solder. The tubes ccare then soldered to the teapot.

The connection, as so far described, is similar to Stows connection, and, therefore, not considered as my invention.

By making the handle A of square form, I am. ena bled to construct a. skeleton-handle, in which the metal is so thin that the circulation of the air will keep the handle cool enough to be handled with bare hands.

By casting the skeleton-handle in a single piece, it can be made at a much less price than the tubular skeleton-handle of Stows patent.

.,I do not claim making perforations to allow the free passage of air, as the same is shown in St'ows patent; but

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letteis Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a skeleton, or perforated teapot-handle, cast in a single piece, suhstantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

LUCAS C. CLARK.

Witnesses JAMES SHEPARD, C. A. SHEPARD. 

